Multi-Platform Development – Page 8

Avoiding the TextChanged Event in Desktop Projects

Published February 24, 2022 by Wayne Golding

Xojo Mobile and Web project controls don’t raise the TextChanged Event like Desktop controls do. But I want my code to be as similar as possible across all project types so I’ve created some custom controls. In this blog post I’ll walk you through the process of creating a Custom Desktop TextField control.

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Getting the Operating System Version Information

Published February 22, 2022 by Paul Lefebvre

It is useful to know the version of the operating system your app is running on. You might use this information to access a feature that is only available on certain OS versions or perhaps you want to include it in logging data to help troubleshoot. Regardless, you can fetch this information from the System.VersionData class.

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Iterating Through a Date Range

Published February 7, 2022 by Paul Lefebvre

The Iterable and Iterator interfaces are a great way to simplify code. For example, what if you want to iterate through dates in a range?

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Desktop: Adding Controls at Runtime

Published January 7, 2022 by Xojo

If you have been using Xojo, you may be used to adding Controls at runtime using Control Sets. You may not know it but beginning with Xojo 2021r3, there is a better way. Using the new Desktop Controls introduced in Xojo 2021r3, you can add Controls to a DesktopWindow at runtime using AddControl, just like you do with Xojo Mobile and Web projects.

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Automated Testing: How We Test Xojo Builds

Automated Testing: How We Test Xojo Builds

Published December 17, 2021 by Geoff Perlman

Xojo has an extensive testing period where actual users test a pre-release version with their projects but if you are wondering what kind of testing we do internally before each pre-release of Xojo, we have quite a bit of automated testing processes. There are over 400 tests just for the compiler alone. Already, we are approaching 300 tests for our Android framework. In total, across all supported platforms, there are over 2500 automated tests.

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Xojo Android Pre-Release is now in testing

Published November 18, 2021 by Paul Lefebvre

Xojo Android Pre-Release is now in pre-release testing. If you have a current license and are part of the Testers forum channel, you should see a new Android sub-category for this special Android Pre-Release, with download links.

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PDFDocument: Transparency Support

Published November 18, 2021 by Javier Menendez

Among the many improvements added to PDFDocument in Xojo 2021r3 is support for Graphics.Transparency as well as support for the alpha value in the color…

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Welcome to the Dark Side of Windows

Published November 18, 2021 by William Yu

Starting with Xojo 2021r3, the Windows IDE is now themed for dark mode. This is because we’ve added support for dark mode aware Windows apps. But wait, how is that even possible with Win32 controls?

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PDFDocument: Adding PDF Forms

Published November 18, 2021 by Javier Menendez

Added to PDFDocument in Xojo 2021r3 is the ability to create PDF Forms (aka AcroForms) in your PDFs. This means that it is possible to add the following Form controls to a PDF: PDFButton, PDFTextField, PDFTextArea, PDFCheckBox, PDFRadioButton, PDFPopupMenu, PDFComboBox, PDFListBox

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Why isn’t a button just a button?

Published November 18, 2021 by Geoff Perlman

Our vision for Xojo has always been to make it fast and easy for people of varying programming skill levels to create applications. The primary…

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